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Tapper, Strittmatter) to 3 (Brown, Frazier, and Henry). Mr. Strittmatter, after citing many reasons why a lighting ordinance was not needed, concluded in the end that it was needed because “interlopers from the outside” can use excessive lighting to put local businesses out of business. The county needed to prepare for the future.
Lighting at
gas stations
This is true. Approaches to commercial night lighting are changing. Take gas stations. A study published in December 2001, by the Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., noted the following:
“A brightness war has broken out between gas stations throughout America. The goal is to have the brightest undercanopy lighting in the local market. If one gas station in an area installs lighting with greater brightness, competing stations feel obliged to be brighter still. The result of this escalating process has seen a steady increase in the illuminances produced by undercanopy lighting with the result that, today, illuminances on the apron under the canopy commonly exceed 100 foot candles, more than double the illuminances used in many offices. . . complaints have increased pressure on local officials to correct the situation.”
Sheetz serves as a good example: its lighting has been measured at 120 foot-candles. Its canopies are close to 20-feet high as compared to the normal 14-feet high range. More light
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